Hicham Lasri

Moroccan Film director, screenwriter, novelist and illustrator.

Hicham Lasri was born on April 13, 1977 in Casablanca, Morocco. After legal and economic studies, he started writing and moved on to the 7th art. In 2011, he directed his very first feature film: The End.

In all of his films, Hicham Lasri addresses political issues by choosing his hometown as a spatial setting.

His hats as a director, screenwriter, novelist and illustrator make 40-year-old Hicham Lasri one of the most prolific artists of his generation. To his credit, six films all awarded in Morocco and elsewhere. His latest, The closest wound to the sun, earned him a fourth invitation to the Berlin International Film Festival.

After legal studies, he changes orientation and begins a career of writer, playwright and script-writer. He writes a first feature film for Omar Chraîbi, and then collaborates with other directors as Taieb Louhichi, Lahcen Zinoun, Rachid El Ouali and Nabil Ayouch. He obtains the big price of the young writer of the Union of Morocco's Writers in 2005 and the Special prize Naaman (Lebanon) for the play (K)Rêve. He is also a prize-winner of Grand Prix 2M of Literature for the Science fiction novel as well as of multiple prizes of short stories and poetry.

In 2002, he wins the Mohammed Reggab prize of the scenario and realizes his first short film "Géometrie des remords", produced by Nabil Ayouch. It is the beginning of a long collaboration which extends over several years, three other short films and the feature film: "The Iron Bone" in 2007.

In 2006 he becomes the artistic director and writing director of Film Industry, he oversees the creation of 17 films within the framework of this ambitious project.

Hicham Lasri manages to combine his director's activity (music videos, commercials and other creations besides the fiction) as well as the writing activity in association with other directors while being opened to all the possibilities of collaboration in all the Media..